EIP 214 Addition of the ‘STATICCALL’ opcode, permitting non-state-changing calls to other contracts

EIP 100 Changes to the difficulty adjustment formula to take uncles into account (EIP 100)

EIP 649 Delay of the ice age / difficulty bomb by 1 year, and reduction of block reward from 5 to 3 ether

The second part of the Metroplis-Fork, "Constantinople", has not yet a fixed date, but is expected in 2018.
But It should be expected, however, that this fork at least partly build the foundations for the Casper Proof of Stake contract as well as Sharding.

So far, there is no sign of a minority fork according to current fork logs, and developers are celebrating the transition on social media.

I found you because I am investing a lot here in the form of technical knowledge, time, creativity and tech hardware as I am now a witness for Steem and I noticed that you are voting for @picokernel - but that picokernel's witness server is offline and of no use to Steem (for quite a long time as far as I can tell).
I would really appreciate if you would support me with a vote to give me a chance to show what I can do for Steem and Steemit. I have a long background in software engineering and also in running social networks.

Yup so far so good, no split in the coin as of yet but we still have about a week for that to still be possible. From what I have found on their site however the conversion over to the new one is moving along quickly with mining power dropping out.

Next I will be very curious what wallets are going to allow the new POS